LING 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Generative Grammar, Binoculars

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1001
• Professor: Bethany Mac Leod

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We can draw a syntactic tree to represent this hierarchical structure within phrases. N children (n = head of phrase) N children: constituents correspond to syntactic phrases, if we try to replace just some of a phrase, it cannot be a constituent. Np n children: now if we replace children" w/ something else, we"re replacing an entire phrase, so it is a constituent. Np n cake: this tells us that cake" in this sentence must be a phrase. It must be an np (not just an n) If we put them together: the man bought the book , we get a complete sentence. N man: we need to connect these 2 phrases. N book: we also need to have some syntactic structure that reflects complete unit of. Vp v bought (predicate structure) N book: we connect the np w/ the vp via an s (for sentence) level. Vp v called (predicate structure)